Now here comes the problem: With this token I tried to make an AddItem-call in the sandbox environment (using the Google-Chrome DHC-Extension), in order to check out if everything works as expected, but I'm receiving the following error code:

There has be something going on with eBay or I'm just crazy. My application stopped working because of this.

This article (https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=630) states the auth token can only contain certain characters: a to z$$anonymous$$A to Z$$anonymous$$0 to 9 Asterisk$$anonymous$$Slash$$anonymous$$Plus ( * / +)

Yet$$anonymous$$the tokens returned have this garbage in the beginning: v^1.1#i^1#p^3#f^0#I^3#r^0#t^